From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 11:16:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DFF106566B for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A242F8FC08 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBE8A1.dip.t-dialin.net [93.203.232.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id pAOBGZ8v087791 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:16:36 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id pAOBGO9c050934 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:16:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pAOBGH4i098240 for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:16:23 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201111241116.pAOBGH4i098240@fire.js.berklix.net> To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:16:17 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Subject: Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:16:38 -0000 Hi, Please keep this on list. Forwarded from: "Julian Stacey" http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ ------- Forwarded Message >From traveling08@cox.net Thu Nov 24 05:15:33 2011 From: Robert To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found Message-ID: <20111123192154.5b0a64ab@dell64> In-Reply-To: <201111232108.pANL80g3041149@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <20111123123347.4f439c9c@dell64> <201111232108.pANL80g3041149@fire.js.berklix.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Julian and Warren thanks for the responses. On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0100 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Robert wrote: > > Greetings > > > > [robert@dell64] ~> uname -a > > FreeBSD dell64.shasta204.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #34: > > Fri Nov 18 06:43:01 PST 2011 > > root@dell64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > > I have two Lexar Professional 600X 16GB compact flash cards that are > > unusable. fdisk shows: > > > Is there any way I can restore these CF cards to 16GB? Any help or > > suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > > @ suggestions: > 1 Try > bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1 [robert@dell64] ~> sudo bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1 Password: [robert@dell64] ~> > echo unplug, reinsert Not sure if you actually wanted me to unplug and reinsert the CF card...so I did both [robert@dell64] ~> echo unplug, reinsert unplug, reinsert and physically unplugged and reinserted the CF card > newfs /dev/da1a ^ ??? [robert@dell64] ~> sudo newfs /dev/da1a newfs: /dev/da1a: could not find special device [robert@dell64] ~> sudo newfs /dev/da1 /dev/da1: 29.5MB (60480 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 4 cylinder groups of 7.39MB, 473 blks, 960 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 160, 15296, 30432, 45568 cg 0: bad magic number [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 32, size 59360 (28 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 28/ head 63/ sector 32 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: No change from before. > > 2 Base of _my_ man fdisk > " When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run > this: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 I had failed to mention in the original post that I had seen something in my searches about problems since 7.1. I had tried booting from an old 6.2 disk and attempted all of this under "fixit" with no luck. And also tried in single user mode. Warren, [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1 gpart: geom 'da1': Invalid argument [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart create -s GPT da1 da1 created [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da1 bootcode written to da1 [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1 da1 destroyed [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 32, size 59360 (28 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 28/ head 63/ sector 32 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: I see the flashing lights like it is writing to the CF card but nothing changes. More suggestions welcome. These are quite expensive CF cards. Thanks again Robert ------- End of Forwarded Message